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Professor Michaelis was part of the Laser Group at UKZN, which researched gas lenses (Front cover of Nature), refractive fringe diagnostics, laser produced plasmas and operated an atmospheric LIDAR. They established strong collaborations with Pelindaba, NLC at CSIR, Univ de la Reunion and the Rutherford Lab. He also studied modeling of physical phenomena with permanent magnets.
In his retirement, Professor Michaelis continues to research the Levitron phenomena and flame lenses in an on-going collaboration with the National Laser Center at the CSIR. He also visits the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Space and Lasers) weekly and his magnetic applications ideas have been patented by Oxford University’s IP company (ISIS).
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